Identities and Inequalities Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality 3rd Edition – Test Bank

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Identities and Inequalities Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality 3rd Edition – Test Bank

Chapter 02

Manufacturing Difference: The Social Construction of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

True / False Questions

1. The meanings of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality have remained the same over the past couple of centuries.
FALSE

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2. According to the constructionist perspective, race, class, gender, and sexuality are simply individual traits.
FALSE

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3. We all possess multiple identities.
TRUE

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4. According to the constructionist perspective, social identifiers have both psychological and structural meanings.
TRUE

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5. Sociologists use race to refer to the nonbiological traits that provide members of a group with a sense of common identity.
FALSE

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6. According to the constructionist perspective, social identifiers are independent of context.
FALSE

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7. The U.S. Census accurately reflects the way people personally experience race.
FALSE

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8. Transsexuals not only identify with a different sex but sometimes undergo hormone treatment and surgery to physically change their sex.
TRUE

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9. The official U.S. poverty line is based on income after tax and includes food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing.
FALSE

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10. Determining an individual’s sex is a strictly natural and straightforward process.
FALSE

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Multiple Choice Questions

11. From an essentialist perspective, people’s:
A. idea of what is real and essential is always a product of the culture and historical period in which they live.
B. race and gender can change as long as society’s essence is transient.
C. definitions and labels can change, but an individual’s essence is permanent.
D. racial ambivalence is independent of within-group and between-group differences.

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12. Which of the following statements is true according to constructionism?
A. Categorical distinctions based on race, gender, class, and sexuality exist independently of human ideas about them.
B. What humans know to be real and essential is always a product of the culture and historical period in which humans live.
C. People’s definitions and labels can change, but an individual’s essence is permanent.
D. Social identifiers are independent of context.

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